- It is not required for a company to facilitate it.
- It is not a priori allowed to use company resources to discuss your salary.
- As a company you do not have to reward that unprofessional and irresponsible behavior.
What this Google employee did was obviously toxic for the culture. As a manager, deciding who gets the raise and who doesn't is already a hard decision (as Ben Horowitz says: Both actions will make some people feel left out), without your employees trying to undermine that.
I do not think this had anything to do with her being a female. If a male had set up an internal mailing list questionnaire he would have probably found himself in the exact same situation (people higher up do not like it when you are a trouble maker). How she leaves it ambiguous and yet hints at pay inequality for women at Google is lacking class and tact.
Google wants more equality. All things equal they hire minorities. If HR analysts find statistically significant inequality I doubt they would ignore that.
You don't use internal mailing lists to promote your religion, just like you should not use internal mailing lists to promote thorny political/social issues.
- It is not required for a company to facilitate it.
- It is not a priori allowed to use company resources to discuss your salary.
- As a company you do not have to reward that unprofessional and irresponsible behavior.
What this Google employee did was obviously toxic for the culture. As a manager, deciding who gets the raise and who doesn't is already a hard decision (as Ben Horowitz says: Both actions will make some people feel left out), without your employees trying to undermine that.
I do not think this had anything to do with her being a female. If a male had set up an internal mailing list questionnaire he would have probably found himself in the exact same situation (people higher up do not like it when you are a trouble maker). How she leaves it ambiguous and yet hints at pay inequality for women at Google is lacking class and tact.
Google wants more equality. All things equal they hire minorities. If HR analysts find statistically significant inequality I doubt they would ignore that.
You don't use internal mailing lists to promote your religion, just like you should not use internal mailing lists to promote thorny political/social issues.